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The Jeremiahs
17th August 2014 Time: 20:00 Location: Lyth Arts Centre Foyer Length: 2 hours Interval: Yes Age suitability : 10+ Folk - The Jeremiahs The talent and rich musical backgrounds of Brian, Jean-Christophe, James and Joe have helped the Jeremiahs deliver one of the hottest and most entertaining Irish performances on the music scene today. They create a truly original sound with their fantastic repertoire of old and new folk songs coupled with Joe's beautiful lilting voice.
The Far North Youth Orchestra - mini concert 
The Far North Youth Orchestra Suitable for all ages - babies and toddlers welcome! The orchestra has been established this year as part of Lyth Arts Centre's community development programme. Musicians are all 8/13 years old and come from the north and west Highlands.
David Patrick Octet - Sketches of Spring/Riot at the Rite 
David Patrick Octet - Sketches of Spring/Riot at the Rite 31st May 2014 Time: 20:00:00 Location: Lyth Arts Centre Length: 2 hours David Patrick International Jazz Octet Sketches of Spring/Riot at the Rite David Patrick (piano), Dick Lee (clarinet), Sam Coombes (saxophone), Brian Molley (Saxophone), Tom McNiven (trumpet), Martin Zenker (bass), Ole Seimetz (drums) Stravinsky's work "Le sacre du printemps / The Rite of Spring" represents a collision of all the developments that were coming to the surface of European culture around 1913. At its first now-famous performance in the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, a riot broke out among the Parisian audience.
Inspector Norse or (The Girl With Two Screws Left Over)
Inspector Norse or (The Girl With Two Screws Left Over) 15th May 2014 Time: 20:00:00 Location: Lyth Arts Centre Length: 2 hours A self-assembly Swedish crime thriller. It is bitter mid-winter.
Christine Tobin - A Thousand Kisses Deep 
Christine Tobin - A Thousand Kisses Deep 25th May 2014 Time: 20:00:00 Location: Lyth Arts Centre Length: 2 hours Christine Tobin's A Thousand Kisses Deep brings together one of the most distinctive and alluring voices in jazz with one of the great poetic songwriters of our time, Leonard Cohen, in a mesmerising evening of music. As an award-winning composer herself, Tobin has always taken a keen interest in singer-songwriters.
Nuala Kennedy Band in Noble Stranger 
Nuala Kennedy Band in Noble Stranger 8th May 2014 Time: 20:00:00 Location: Lyth Arts Centre Length: 2 hours Renowned traditional singer Nuala Kennedy is widely recognised for her passionate love of traditional music and her band was nominated as Folk Band of the Year 2013. At Lyth they will be joined by multi-award-winning Canadian fiddle and piano virtuoso Troy MacGillivray.
Karmana in concert at Lyth Arts Centre
20th April 2014 Visionary guitar virtuoso Simon Thacker and the outstanding young Polish cellist Justyna Jablonska present Karmana (Sanskrit for "performing anything by means of magic"), combining elements from classical, jazz, Indian, Flamenco, Celtic, Balkan and other powerful musical systems mixed with Simon's unique experiences performing with musicians from around the world, resulting in an exhilarating meeting of musical styles, cultures and traditions, performed by two leading musicians. Karmana mingles compositional ingenuity, captivating rhythmic invention and improvisational grace and fervour with the incredible sonic palette of guitar and cello.
Dyad Productions in "I, Elizabeth" At Lyth Arts Centre
28th April 2014 Adapted & performed by Rebecca Vaughan Directed by Olivier Award winner, Guy Masterson 1568: At a vital crossroads in history a young queen steps from the shadows to unburden herself of her many troubles and reveal her innermost thoughts on marriage, succession, religion, war, and the challenges to her throne. But time is against her...
Dogstar Theatre Company in "Factor 9"
9th April 2014. At a time when the NHS has been much challenged, we open our season with a play set against the backdrop of the tainted blood products scandal affecting thousands of haemophiliacs worldwide.
The Shee in concert at Lyth Arts Centre
25th April 2014 At Lyth Arts Centre. This is an all-female six-piece band with exceptional singing along with astonishing instrumental prowess.
Partikel in concert
30th October 2013 Time: 20:00:00 Location: Lyth Arts Centre Length: 2 hours Interval: yes Age suitability : 8+ We close our season on a bright note which points to the music of the future - a minimalist trio described by Jazz UK magazine as "a masterclass in the art of the trio, with music that is both eloquent and articulate". Partikel are three London-based musicians, all with very different musical backgrounds, who have come together to make music by mixing all of their favourite influences in a melodic, coherent and accurate way.
Scottish Opera presents Handel’s Rodelinda
8th October 2013 Time: 19:30:00 Location: Wick High School Length: 2 hrs 20 mins approximately Interval: yes Age suitability : 8+ Director Chris Rolls and designer Oliver Townsend use their extensive theatrical expertise to capture the drama, and the elegance, of one of Handel's most successful operas. Against a backdrop of faded Baroque grandeur, a cast of very contemporary characters tells a compelling tale of tyranny, love and the corrupting nature of power.
Moishe's Bagel in concert
20th October 2013 Moishe's Bagel in concert Time: 20:00:00 Location: Lyth Arts Centre Length: 2 hours Interval: yes Age suitability : 8+ At last a chance to hear again this marvellous band who so many of you have been asking for. This bunch of top Scottish musicians have got the lot - bags of talent, a great sense of theatre and an ear for a very wide range of music of very different styles from many countries to produce an evening of first-rate entertainment.
Lung Ha's Theatre Company & Stellar Quines Theatre Company in "13 Sunken Years" 
Friday 4th October Time: 20:00 Location: Lyth Arts Centre Length: 1 hour plus an optional discussion Interval: yes Age suitability : 14+ Stellar Quines Rehearsal Rooms are spaces where new scripts and new writers are presented to a live audience for the first time. For this Rehearsal Room, Stellar Quines has partnered with Lung Ha's Theatre Company to present 13 Sunken Years by Finnish writer Paula Salminen, translated by Eva Buchwald.
Solo Guitar John Goldie At Lyth Arts Centre
3rd August 2013 Solo Guitar – John Goldie Time: 20:00:00 Location: Lyth Arts Centre, Summer Evening Foyer Recital Length: 2 hours Interval: yes Age suitability : 8+ Solo Guitar – John GoldieSolo Guitar – John Goldie In John Goldie's hands, an acoustic guitar becomes something more than a musical instrument. It becomes an extension of the man himself.
Six Simultaneous Exhibitions of Painting, Craft & Photography
Lyth Arts Centre Open 12 - 5 pm daily 1st July - 31st August 2013 Adults: £3 OAPs: £2 Children, Students, Unwaged: £1 Alistair Cook This project "McArthur's Store" was created by photographer, architect and artist Alistair Cook, who spent the summer of 2012 in a building on the quay at Dunbar used by fishermen while mending their creels. He used wet plate collodion photography, a process concocted by Englishman Fred Scott Archer in 1851 to produce portraits of Dunbar men and their families.
Classical Piano – Joseph Fleetwood At Lyth Arts Centre
15th August 2013 Classical Piano – Joseph Fleetwood Time: 20:00:00 Location: Lyth Arts Centre, Summer Evening Foyer Recital Length: 2 hours Interval: yes Age suitability : 8+ Classical Piano – Joseph FleetwoodClassical Piano – Joseph Fleetwood Schubert, Sonata in A min., D.537 (op.164) Mendelssohn, Fantasie in F sharp min.,(op.28) Rachmaninoff, - six Preludes Prokofiev, Sonata No.7 Chopin, Scherzo No.2 "set to be one of Scotland's most exciting young pianists" (Philip Jenkins, Head of Keyboard, RSAMD, 2002) Joseph Fleetwood comes from an extraordinary musical lineage, having studied extensively with a pupil of Karl Ulrich-Schnabel. Karl's teacher was Artur Schnabel, a pupil of Leschetiszky, who studied under Czerny.
Wingin It At Lyth
21st July 2013 Folk – Wingin’ It Time: 20:00:00 Location: Lyth Arts Centre, Summer Evening Foyer Concert Length: 2 hours Interval: yes Age suitability : 8+ Folk – Wingin’ ItFolk – Wingin’ It Wingin' It are an award winning guitar duo from Scotland. Adam Bulley and Chas Mackenzie formed the duo in 2005, having met playing in other projects in and around Argyll.
Fiona Hunter and Mike Vass
Nothing is more exciting for musicians than finding someone else who you enjoy playing with and that is what's happened to those two. They are well matched and Fiona's beautiful voice and cello is perfectly underscored by Mike's guitar and fiddle.
Gramophones Theatre Company in 'End to End' 
This is the second show which some of the Highland promoters admired in last year's Fringe and invited to tour our venues. It's a delightful and imaginative entertainment performed by three wacky young ladies who hitched from Land's End to John O' Groats and then turned their experience into a play.
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